Improvement in combined toy guns and horns



L. D U'VALL. I COMBINED TOY GUN AHNDHORNK PatentedNov. 2,1875.

NJETERS, PHOlOiH'HDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. 0,0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONIDAS DUVALL, OF GEORGETOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TOY GUNS AND Hogans.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,427, dated November2, 1875; application riled September 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONIDAS DUVALL, of Georgetown, in the county ofWashington and District of Columbia, have invented an ImprovedPocket-Shooter and Horn combine-d, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention is an improvement in an instrument or toy for throwingprojectiles by the use of an elastic strap or band, combining a whistleor born.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and portable toy, as aninstrument of amusement for children.

The accompanying drawing will more fully illustrate the nature of myinvention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my toy. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the line A B.

The same letters occurring on the several figures indicate like parts.

A A is the elastic cord or band by which force is produced for throwingprojectiles; B, the main tube, as shown. C G is a mOVELblB hollowpiston, as shown in Fig. 2, and forming a whistle or horn, incombination with the outside cylinder and band A; D, a projectile orarrow, within the piston O; E, the

fastening, semi-inclosing the tube B, and havin g lips d, by which theelastic band is secured, as shown in all the figures, which fasteningcan be placed on any portion of the cylinder, though intended to be.placed nearer to one end than the otherfso as to give greater force inthrowing a projectile, when the rubber band is placed on the longer endof the cylinder.

The hollow piston is intended to contain the projectile, such as anarrow or buck-shot. This cylinder is retracted by the band or cord Awith such force as to throw the projectile a considerable distance, andwith great degree of accuracy.

When not used as a shooter this toy may be used as a whistle or born,the operator blowing in the end not covered by the strap, and the soundmay be either fine or coarse-- finewhen the hollow piston is in thecylinder, or coarse when the opposite is the case.

The cylinders B may be manufactured and sold as a complete articlewithout the rubber, as the rubber may be easily applied by childrenthemselves, and it may be renewed by them when broken.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combined toy gun and horn, consistin g of the cylinder or tube B,having tastening E, the band A, and the hollow piston O, substantiallyas described. 7

2. The combined shooter and horn AB, and the hollow cylinder G,substantially as de scribed.

LEONIDAS DUVALL.

Witnesses:

1;. R. CATLIN, S. S. STOUT.

